We Did Not Fear the Father

This week in English we went over our assigned poems. The one that I found clear but confusing at the same time is We Did Not Fear the Father. It is a poem by Charles Fort. He wrote it from what I think is the perspective of children and how they see their father. They saw their dad as a hard working man who had three jobs. Their father was a landlord, a barber, and a factory worker. The children liked that their dad was a landlord, he could spend time with them and they got to look over old newspapers that they found in the walls of the property. They also liked his job as a barber just because they remembered him and he was a nice guy at that time. When he went to the factory to work his night job the children feared their father. He was so tired and looked so mean covered in grease, the father just had a lack of patience at the end of his factory jobs. This scared the children, but they knew that their dad was a good man who loved and cared for them. He worked all those jobs so that he could provide for his family and give them the best life that he could while still being an honest man.